{"id":746,"date":"2026-05-12T07:50:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=746"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:50:31","slug":"gaborone-gold-rush-how-botswana-rose-to-the-top-of-mens-sprinting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=746","title":{"rendered":"Gaborone gold rush: how Botswana rose to the top of men\u2019s sprinting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country with a population of just 2.5m credits investment in young athletes for its rise but this progress is under threat<\/p>\n<p>It was a fairytale ending to the World Athletics Relays in Gaborone. In the final strait, Collen Kebinatshipi surged past South Africa\u2019s Zakithi Nene to win the men\u2019s 4x400m relay for Botswana. The home crowd, a sea of light blue, went wild.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means so many things to us,\u201d Letsile Tebogo, 22, the reigning 200m Olympic champion, who ran the second leg, told reporters afterwards. \u201cNot just the team \u2026 but for the people that always cheer for us behind the TV. Now they had that experience to see first-hand how much effort, how much pressure, how much we give for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/12\/gaborone-gold-rush-botswana-sprinting-athletics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country with a population of just 2.5m credits investment in young athletes for its rise but this progress is under threat It was a fairytale ending to the World Athletics Relays in Gaborone. In the final strait, Collen Kebinatshipi surged past South Africa\u2019s Zakithi Nene to win the men\u2019s 4x400m relay for Botswana. The home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}